KNOWN UNKNOWN is a political-artistic installation about the continuities of right-wing violence in Germany and the failure of state institutions in the NSU complex. The 16-minute audiovisual work is based on over a year and a half of research and combines documentary archival material, narrative text work, and digital visualization.

The audio piece centers the perspectives of those affected – as well as the gaps in the investigation and the names of those who contributed directly or indirectly to the existence of the NSU: through active involvement, knowledge, or institutional neglect. In its documentary character, it names perpetrators, responsible authorities, and political actors, shows archival material, and gives space for the voices of survivors and relatives. The narrator guides through the dense material with the aim of leaving the audience room to form their own stance.

In parallel, a digital 3D installation was created – an abstract, multidimensional web that visualizes the complexity of the NSU support network: the very structure often left out of the official narrative. The installation spatially and visually translates the research, making structures tangible, nodes visible, and showing that the NSU was not just made up of three individuals but was embedded in a sprawling system of neo-Nazi structures, informants, authorities, and societal ignorance.

Only in the interplay between the audio piece and the installation does the narrative fully unfold: The web begins to speak once it receives a voice – collective listening instead of silence. KNOWN UNKNOWN challenges the idea of a "final resolution" and invites active engagement. In the dialogue between voice, silence, space, and visualization, a dense, demanding, and reflective work emerges.